Eric Heisserer Quotes
Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
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There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, 'I love you.'
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I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
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When it comes to creativity and to leadership, we need introverts doing what they do best.
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Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
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The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.
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The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
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I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.
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Yo La Tengo were a major inspiration for me because they're one of the first bands that I got into on my own, separate from my parents, when I was in high school. I have all their albums. That's the place we'd like be in someday.
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I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.
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I couldn't hope to be in anything better than 'Misfits.' The reaction from fans has been mental. The weirdest thing is when people tell me I'm their inspiration. I can't believe I get fan mail, and loads of free clothes. Adidas sent me lots of stuff; it's wicked!
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Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.
